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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Twerking is a dance form that originated in central Africa and kept alive by slaves to keep connection to their culture, even used as a form of rebellion.[/b]

It’s uptight weirdos and perverted men who turn it into something sexual. It’s perfectly fine for people to move their pelvis to dance, and it someone wants to project their ideas of sex onto it, that’s their problem.

You’re sexualizing little girls. You’re the problem. I’m guessing you don’t tell little boys they need to avoid doing certain things, because you don’t see the male body as inherently sexual like you do the female body. [/quote]

That is entirely unsupported by evidence, PP. Twerking came to the fore in the 90s in New Orleans in the African diaspora communities, and it was DIRECTLY linked to sexual signaling, since some of it was pushed out from brothels and assimilated businesses. There is no direct link to any specific dance or specific African culture from actual Africa, but the New Orleans diaspora it originated from generally speaks Bantu, a group of languages spoken across multiple central and southern African countries.

Ergo: yes, it is a sexualized dance originally. And please do not confuse diaspora artistic creations with country-of-origin artistic creations (regardless of which ethnicity and region of the world you're considering). Some diasporas are so ancient and/or so dynamic, that they've spawned their own specific cultural nodes.

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Me again. I want to add that the mere fact it's "sexual" doesn't make it bad. Just maybe not appropriate for little kids. Most rites of ancient civilizations that have survived through the centuries, or for which we have depictions on tablets or other materials... were fertility rites. Japan still has a festival with phallic symbols every spring.

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